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Daunting challenges,unprecedented opportunity

The challenges we face are daunting — transitioning to a fossil-free, circular, sustainable economy, while meeting the world's growing needs for water, food, energy and materials.

At Futureproofed, we believe that these challenges bring about unprecedented opportunities. In fact, we believe we are standing at the biggest business opportunity in a century.

Our goal is to be catalysts of this transition.

Sustainable city - Fribourg

Sustainable business - Interface

Sustainable building - Rotterdam

Sustainable brand - Patagonia

Sustainable mobility - Brompton

Sustainable mobility - Tesla

Sustainable food - Alpro

Sustainable innovation - Colruyt

Proactive, visionary cities and companies around the world are leading the transition to a fossil-free future, and profiting from it right now.

Moving to a futureproofed economy brings about very real, tangible benefits, today.

From climate change tosustainable business outcomes

At Futureproofed we use an outcome driven innovation approach: we always start from our customers' most important business challenges. Then, backed by data, we partner with our customers to reduce carbon emissions while working towards four business outcomes: saving costs, reducing risks, developing new business opportunity and reinforcing the brand through inspiring sustainable success stories

This results in tools and strategies to help shape the companies that will lead the next industrial revolution, while creating value for customers and for society.

We have experienced over and over again that moving towards a fossil-free future can help realise very tangible business outcomes today.

Futureproofed business solutions for you

Over the years we have had our fair share of hits and misses. We think we have now narrowed our offering to four distinct areas we are good at, and that provide real value to our customers:

To save costs or reduce risks, our interactive, data-driven, web-based carbon and environmental management tools will help establish a baseline, set your targets, monitor and manage your cost and carbon savings, and review your performance with your team and stakeholders.

Sustainable business development workshops, programs or conferences helps you innovate on existing and new business using engaging, lively and interactive game-storming and design sprint methods.

By raising awareness with motivational speeches, we can help your customers, stakeholders and coworkers move from a responsibility to an opportunity mindset. Along the same lines, we can help you craft, validate and tell your sustainable success stories.

Throughout your journey, Futureproofed can guide you on all levels by coaching and challenging you and acting as a sparring partner in your projects and strategic processes

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City climate dashboard

Think differently, unconventionally and from a new perspective. Serge and his team assisted us in the organisation of a three-day conference in Rotterdam. We experienced Futureproofed as a highly professional and competent facilitator. They’ve challenged our youngsters and I was more than happy with the quality of new ideas that came out of the conference. Plans are already underway for a next event.

— Alain Bernard, CEO DEME

With the Covenant of Mayors we’re taking up a binding engagement to do better than the provincial plan of Climate neutral organisation 2020. We asked Futureproofed to help us map the carbon footprint of Mechelen, as well as to help us develop a reduction roadmap which will be used by the city council as a starting point to set up city-wide policies aimed at reducing CO2 emissions. Futureproofed was very rigorous in mapping our carbon footprint but also provided concrete actions. It’s now up to us to realise our energy saving potential and pave the way for a zero carbon future.

— Marina De Bie, Deputy mayor, City of Mechelen inter alia for the environment, climate and energy

With our company we want to create added value on a sustainable way. Gaining insight into the environmental impact of your business is important to get CO2 on your radar and get to look at reduction potential. Futureproofed helped us in preparing our first carbon footprint, where we used the GHG Protocol as a guideline. Through this joint project, our engineers are now able to refine and update our numbers each year. Before we publish our results in the annual report, we do an external audit. This boosts the quality of our data systematically and we learn continuously.

— Jef Colruyt, CEO Colruyt Group

GE Lighting is pivoting from a product manufacturer to a system solution provider focussed on customer outcomes. I believe Futureproofed did a great job because they were able to analyse, verify and visualise the results we deliver with our systems. Futureproofed is a very hands-on and agile company with visionary ideas. Their approach really helped us to propel this project forward.